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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

THE Government of New South Wales has
offered to American inventors a reward OF
1928 600 for any process or continuance
that would exterminaUe rabbits, which have
become pest throughout Australia and
New Zealand
BoGoTA united States of Colombia) adj
vices of the 25th stated that thousands OF
Colombians in certain districts are annually
stolen and sold into slavery of the vilest
character, and that hundreds were killed
in conflict, their bodies being left unburied
IT was the opinion of Mr. Balfour, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, on the Goth, that
Editor OBrien could not be subjected to the
usual prison discipline, because he has sue
ceeded in sheltering himself under q
medical opinion that his lungs are defeats
and his heart action weak.
PARIS advices of the 25th state that Pres.
ident Grevy was stubbornly resisting tbs
demands for his immediate resignation.
The newspapers unanimously condemned
the prolongation of the crisis
THE President in the German Reichstag on
the Goth read a telegram from the Crown
Prince in response to message OF SYM
pathy sent by that body, thanking them for
their sympathy, and expressing the hope
which had already resulted from his stay in
the south, would permit him to resume to
the full extent his duties to the fatherland
WILLIAM BEACH won the sculling race for
the worlds championship over Edward
Hanlan by two lengths at,Sidney, N. S. w.,
on the Goth.
CHARLES A. GHLIG, of the American Ex-
change, London, is responsible for the
statement that Mr.. Gladstone will visit this
country in April.
IT was reported from London on the 9th
that Mr. Parnell was suffering from malig-
nant tumor of a cancerous nature
BECAUSE of a demand by cigar-makers
for increased wages ninety-fve cigar fac
tories in Havana, Cuba, employing twelve
thousand men, were shut down ON the
2Sth
LETTERS received in London on the 2Sth
from the upper Congo state that Tippo
lib had not sent the promised carriers to
SANKEY'S rear guard at Yambuya to con-
vey stores for Emin Bey, and that Stanley
had proceeded without them. Many of the
men had died from starvation.
A FIRE destroyed school building at
WerchobstritzkIoi Russia, recently, and
sixteen girls persisted in the flames.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
LATER.

The sentence of Jacob Sharp, the noted
New York briber, to imprisonment, was
reversed on the 29th by the Court of Appeals,
and a new trial on the basis of the exclu-
sion of some of the more important of the
evidence will be the result.
M. E. GLOVE, OF Amboy, Mimi, killed his
wife and then committed suicide on the
Goth. The two had been living apart for
some time.
sTEPHANY BAILEY, of Berkeley, S c., who
was arrested recently for the murder of his
wife, made a confession on the Doth in
which he said that he had been married
three times and that his wives all met death
at his hands,
WILLIAM A. MILLER, who served two terms
as Governor of the State of Arkansas, died
at Little Rock on the Goth
THE jury at New York in the case of
Johann Most, charged with making an in
cendiary speech, returned verdict Of
guilty on the Goth, Notwithstanding the
judges charge was in favor of the accused
WILLIAM NARswALD died in New York on
the 295h of hydrophobia. He was bitten by
Newfoundland dog last August
The mayor of Culiacan, Mex, on the goth
offered a reward of $40 900 for the capture
of Eraclio Bernal, the most desperate ban
dit in the country
JAMES b. CHESS, of Indiana, was on the
Goth appointed United States Consul at
Durango, Mex
A GOLD mine containing fabulous wealth
was ON the 29th reported to have been dis
covered by Dr. Walter Kempster, superin-
tendent of the Northern Wisconsin Insane
Asylum in Montgomery County, Nd
A COMPANY was formed at Boston on the
29th for the purpose of building telegraph
line from New York to San Francisco.
A GANG OF thieves who had been operating
at the Chicago Stock Yards during the last
year and had stolen about $40 600 worth of
goods from the packing houses was cap
tured on the 29th
JOHN B. LANG & Co., wholesalers of dry
goods at Londen, Ont, failed on the Goth
for 100000
SECRETARY LAMAR in his annual report on
the 18th says that the amount of land re-
stored to the public domain during his term
of office through the orders revoking the
indemnity Withdrawals is q, 323 600 acres,
WILLIAM WILLIAMS was taken from the
Jail at Oakland, Fla, on the 29th by crowd
of negroes and lynched
OFFICIAL returns on the Doth of the recent
election in Virginia show that the Demo-
cratic vote exceeded the Republican by 1926
A sEvEN-FooT vein of lead, containing
Ismall quantities of silver was discovered
on the Goth at Royal Center, Ind
IHE Mansion House at Andover Mass,
was destroyed by fire ON the both. The
house was built over one hundred years
|ago, and has been used as hotel ever since.
HE completion OF the bridge over the
mississippi river at Dubuque Ia, was cele-
DRAFTED on the 29th with great enthusiasm in
that city. The bridge is twenty eight hun
dred feet long and cost $127, 200 The
largest steamer can pass under it easily
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

1t is said that Julian Hawthorne is
to give up writing to 90 into business.
Conductor w. W. WILDER, of the
BostoB = Albany railroad, has travelled
$780, 600 miles in the last forty-four
years. He is now the oldest conductor
on the road, but he is strong and
vigorous. and expects to make rec
ord of 2,O00 900 miles before he re-
tires.
Mr.. Edward Earle, of New York,
has on his place at Narragansett Pier
water tower seventy-tive feet high
containing $4,000 gallons. On the top
of this tower is a wooden dragon
twenty-one feet long. with spread
wings measuring twelve feet from tip
to- tip.
-Joseph Chamberlain is an en-
thusiast on the subject of orchids, on
which he spends immense sums. He
has the finest collection in England,
always wears one in his buttonhole,
and frequently displays Sc, 900 to $1,000
! worth of these costly flowers on his
dining-room table.
Emperor William has not been or
horseback since the grand parade two
years ago. His two favorite horses,
Alexander and Brunehild, are respect
lively sixteen and thirteen years old.
The royal stable contains seventy-four
carriage horses. A slab over the crib
of each one indicates its name, pedi-
gree and age.
just before Mrs. Langtry left New
York City she became the possessor of
what is pronounced by experts to be
the largest and finest turquoise i'll
America. 1t is set in twenty-seven
diamonds, and may be worn RS pin
or as pendant. 1t is worth over
So, 600 Public Opinion.
In recently published reminis-
cences of Dickens it is told that one
day the novelist picked up one of a pile
of books that had just been sent
''Seems clever" he said, looking it
over. Good style. suppose that 1
| must read it." The next morning he
said: That's a very good book, in
deed but unless am mistaken, George
Eliot is Il woman" The book was
''Adam Bede," just published.-N \.
Sun.
The Garfield monument, though
not completed, has been opened for
the Inspection of the public. The
foolish statements made in regard to
its alleged instability, and widely pub
lished throughout the country, have
no foundation whatever. The height
of the structure was lessened solely to
save the cost. The foundations are
strong, substantial, enduring. The
style of the monument may or may
not please the general public. That is
largely matter of taste.-C1eUeIaam
Leader.
Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is one of
those men who always seem to be in q
hurry, and whose faces carry about
permanent look of fatigue. When he
is wandering about his hotel he tugs
away nervously at the whiskers on his
chin, and seems TO be absorbed by
some mighty problem. When he talks
his sentences are short and to the
point He never looks his nearer in
the eye, and always seems anxious to
get away. He is seldom seen behind
the counter of his business office. He
manages, however, to run his affairs
most successfully, though it be in
peculiar way.-M Y World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
HUMOROUS.

-"What sort of woman is sheP"
"Oh, she's one of those women who
wear dogs when they go to rider
AdUaace.
Miss De Smith, who wants the
sugar-Prof. Gray, will you please
pass me some article on the table
which typifes my characterP Prof.
Gray, abstractedly, continuing his con-
versation with Nine. T, passes the
vinegar Chicago Tribune.
Lament of the Old Rocking
TITS a shame, now I'm old,
The great weight l must hold
At an hour when all wise folks retire;
Since the evenings grew chill
A most wearisome pill
Became mine, holding John and Maria.
-BoSt0n Budget.
do you find your evangelical
labors pleasant?' was asked of a Da-
kota minister. "Not altogether so, at
times" was the reply. For instance,
last Sunday, newly-converted men,
Der of the church, who sits near the
door, threatened to fill me full of holes
if didn't speak louder. life.
1.-THE seats at the circus get mar
rover every year" remarked young
lady in horse-car the other evening.
when / was told where to sit down
there was no sign of seat anywhere,
only the laps of two gentlemen.
Didn't you sit DOWN." "Why, of
course" And there was lapse in the
conversation. -Bmfalo Courier.
Say, what are you doing?" de-
manded the hall-boy of the country
man who was working away at the
electric button in his room with PEN
knife. 90, ye're here, air YEP" was
the response. 'tJust lend me a hand,
will ye? wanter git the stopper aout
o this speakin' tube. S'pose'n the
house sh'd catch fire and l couldn't let
the landlord know. lid Bits.
"A Fall That Would Prove Too
Costly.-Mose Schaumburg and Mrs.
S. went to the Austin Opera-house.
They got seats in the gallery. just
before the performance began Mrs. S.
recognized a friend in the orchestra
and leaned over the railing. Nose
seized her by the arm and pulled her
back, exclaiming in an agonized tone
of voice: "'Vat for you wants to fall
down in dot orgestra, Repecca, we're it
cost tollar and haluf seat?"-
Texas Siftings.
There is lawyer practicing in the
district court who is noted for the de-
liberation with which he goes about
any thing. A case in which he was in
terested was called up and an effort
made to have definite time fixed for
its trial ut won't take long to try
it. It's not complicated case" sug-
gested counsel. Il beg to say" re-
joined the deliberate jurist, "that it
will take considerable time" "Oh,
excuse me-" said the first speaker,
sinking back into his chair, 81 really
didn't know my friend was connected
with the case. - Washington Critic.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

IT is not generally known that the
worlds supply of pencil wood is drawn
from the gulf coast swamps on both
sides of Cedar Keys, and that the prod
uct of the mills there is shipped not only
to the New York and New Jersey fac
tories, but also to Germany and, per-
haps, other countries of Europe, The
industry gives employment to hundreds
of operatives, white and black, and dis
burses large sums of money. That
nothing may be lost, the saw-dust is
distilled in large retorts'and the oil ex-
tracted, every ounce of which finds
ready sale.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

AN honest old school director at
Pottstown, Pa, whose habiliments are
not tirst-class recently visited the school
in his district A little girl in the yard
spoke to him IN such manner that he
severely rebuked her. She ran in and
told the teacher tramp in the yard
had been impudent to her. Thereupon
the big boys of the school were de-
tailed to dispense the tramp, which
they did with clubs and stones. The
next day there was great CONSERVATION
at the school when the identity of the
tramp " became known to teacher
and scholars.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

In Northern Alaska, says a traveller,
the sun shines twenty-five hours out of
the twenty-four during midsummer,
and on the high mountain peaks tor
period of several days in June it is not
entirely out of sight during the twen-
ty-four hours. In July and August the
weather becomes very warm. After
this time the days gradually shorten
until the sun shines but four hours out
OF the twenty-four, but at this period
the aurora is exceedingly intense and
helps very materially in dispelllng the
darkness, and compensates somewhat
for the brief term of daylight
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

JOHN l., MURRY, of Westport, Conn.
veteran of cighty-seven years, is a
tailor, and remembers well when he
sat as a journeyman at the same table
with Andrew johnson. who, he saws,
was not good tailor, although he did
become President of the United States.
MI hurry relates with appreciation
his experience in New York City in
18Th He was drawn on a jury, and
lost so much time that he afterward
joined the Volunteer Fire Department
TO escape jury duty. Soon afterward
he received injuries at fire that laid
him up for sixteen months.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

DURING the past year, according to
the A'9naaire de la PreSSe FRANCHISE,
the number of Partisan publications
was 1893, while there were 3,100 in
the rest of France. an increase in all
OF 343 on those of the previous year
There has been slight decrease in the
number of Republican journals, while
there are l6 more Imperialist and Roy
alist papers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

The death is announced at London
of Valentine Baker, the English officer
whose expulsion from the army for
improper conduct toward q young
lady in a railway cUrriage created a
great sensation q number of years
ago. Baker served under the Sultan
IN the war between Russia and Turkey
and was conspicuous for his bravery.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

A Boston paper alleges that a
wealthy New Yorker of doubtful ante
cedents found a moss-grown tomb.
stone of ancient date and bearing the
same family name as his own in an
English church-yard some time ago,
and purchased it by bribing the sexton.
1t is now set up in his sumptuous
library with q fictitious coat of arms
ATTACHED.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

A DR. MEYER, of Leipzig, has sue
ceeded in reaching the summit of Kill
mandsharo, the highest mountain in
Africa. The height is almost 5000
meters. Some years ago an English
man named Johnston attempted the
ascent of this peak, but did not sue
coed in getting above height of 5000
mnlprs
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

The English post-office officials adj
wise the disuse of sealing wax on let
tiers for countries beyond the seas. 1t
often happens that the wax is melted
by the heat under the tropics or the
fumigations to which mail bags are
subjected. Letters are often thus stuck
together and the addresses DESTROYED.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
A HEAVY wind-storm on the 2eth at Min

A HEAVY W1nd-storm on the Z6tn at Min
cola, Tex, blew down a hall during the
progress of dance held by colored people,
and i've persons were killed and about
twenty injured
The county tfeasurer's Office at Center
vile, No. was entered on the 2eth and tie
safe blown open and robbed of about 800
600 in cash
AT 0akdale, Cal, Frank MeCutcheon was
lynched on the Goth for setting fire to sew
eral buildings
THE official canvass of the recent cleo
ton in Dakota showed on the 26th that the
majority for division would not exceed
5000, and that only eight counties in the
Territory voted against prohibition.
THE furniture factory of Nelson Mather
Il Co. at Grand Rapids, Mich. was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th Loss, 5000, 000
AN officer named Dalton attempted to
arrest horse-thief named Smith in Indian
Territory ON the 9th, when general
fight ensued, which resulted in the killing
of Dalton and Smith and a Mrs. Dixon.
An explosion of boiler attached to
kitchen-range III the Kirby House at Mil
waukee on the 2Sth badly shattered the
building and some twenty persons were in
iured, two of them fatally. Mrs Gage,
cook, was instantly killed
MRS. ELIZABETH MORRISON died on the
28th at Winchester, o., at the age of 1O1
years.
AT St Paul. Mimi. On the 2Sth the ther-
mometer marked 16 degrees below zero;
"a below at Bismarck, d. T.; 90 below at
La Crosse, Wis % below at Huron, d. T.;
20 below at Cedar Rapids, Ia. % below at
Waterloo, Ia, and 16 below at Watertown,
Wis
FIRE on the 2Sbh destroyed large por.
ton of Cary Station, McHenry County, Ill
A LA CROSSE (Wis) dispatch of the 2Sth
states that the ice had stopped running in
the Mississippi, and it was said the river
had never before closed so early in the
season.
A FEW days ago three men were killed in
the woods near Jerusalem, Va, by the fall
ing of tree
THERE were six cases of accidental death
before the coronerin Chicago on the 2Sth.
The recent investigation made by Gov.
ernor Gray, of Indiana, into the charges OF
cruelty against the officers of the Female
State prison show that in many cases the
inmates had been subjected to cruel pun.
isbment
G. r. & c. K. GARRISON, sons of David r
and nephews of the late Commodore CARR.
son, were killed by falling down shaft in
a mine near Webb City, Mo-, few days ago.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

A QUITMAN (Ga,) policeman had a
strange experience one evening re.
Gently. A negro whom he arrested
gave him so much trouble that he had
to use his club to quiet him. He hit
the arrest" on the head two or three
times, when he was startled by the
sudden blazing up of the negro's wool.
After the novel fire was put out the
negro explained that he had been us.
ing his hair as q match-safe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

SIXTEEN years ago E. H. Prince, of
Morgan County, Fla, cut down pine
tree that stood near his house. The
stump is still green and has increased
an inch in diameter, although no new
growth Of branches has started from it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

QUITE a feat was performed by an
English steam tug recently. 1t towed
the broker-down steamer Westphalia
from the Grand Canary Island to
Hamburg, a distance of eighteen hun
dred miles, i'm eleven davs
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

MR. EDWARD ATKINSON thinks that
this country could buy the provinces
of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince
Edward Island and Cape Breton for
500, 100000. He says they are all
eager for annexation, and he believes
that the Dominion Government would
be only too glad to get the money at
the present time, because of the big
railway enterprise it has on its hands.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
e ~
Coal Famine Feared.

ST PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 20. The announce
ment comes from Duluth that the last coal
steamer for the season unloaded it's cargo
Sunday. Nearly 100000 tons have been
taken there, over 100000 tons more than
last year, and yet it is already evident that
there will be great shortage in the supply
this winter The first blizzard came Satur-
day night. and the towns of Western Mime
sofa and Eastern Dakota are even now show
ing signs Of great anxiety. The report
comes from Huron that many people there
are preparing to bring hay burners into
requisition, and last night a telegram from
Adrian announces that there is not a pound
Of coal for sale in that town, and some dis
tress is reported among the poor
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

A SAN FRANCISCO dentist charged a
customer 1886. so for twenty-five hours
work in his mouth The sufferer
wouldn't pay. The dentist sued. The
courts cut the bill down to $40 and the
defendant paid promptly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
Mercury Touches 20 Below I'm Iowa.

CHICAGO, Nov. 29-The minimum tenn
perature at ST. Paul last night was Is de-
grees below zero at z o'clock, with
in an hour afterward it dropped to
%. Sergeant Lyons, of St Paul, says
yesterday morning was the coolest No.
vember morning ever recorded at the
st. Paul signal office except one morning in
November, 1855, when the thermometer
went down to "a below The coolest place
in the United States Sunday night was Fort
Buford, d. E., with 26 below. Bismarck
coming next with "a below. The cold is
now abating al over the Northwest Mer-
curry touched % below at Waterloo, Ia yes
terday at a. IN. At 8 o'clock last night
Bismarck reported II below.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

The most ancient agricultural so
ciety in the United States was organ
;zed in South Carolina. It was found
ed in 1884, and is therefore one hum
dred and three wears old.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

Daniel Tasker has been resident Of Be
lott since 1887, and is the oldest citizen in
Rock Cotinty. In 1888 Tasker left his home
in Vermont and came to Chicago, at that
time town of only three hundred inhabit-
ants From Chicago he went TO Napervile
AMI worked on the first house ever built In
that CITY,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
WISCONSIN.

l. P. Pahls brewery at Oconto was burned
the other afternoon. Loss, 500, 900; insur-
ance, So, 600.
stores at Ashland, Ashland County, dry
goods and mems clothing, have made vol
untary assignment to M. J. Hart He gave
bond for 500, 900, which is supposed to
represent the amount of assets.
By ruling of the Wisconsin Supreme
Court, the law compelling insurance COM
panies doing business in the State to take
out license is a dead letter For failure to
pay the legal penalties prescribed for not
taking out license, judgments aggregaUing
several hundred thousand dollars were OBJ
tanned against about forty companies. In a
test case the Supreme Court reversed the
Judgment on the ground chat the law did
not reach the companies and other COM
panies have since taken an appeal to that
court These companies are minor ones,
located in Georgia, Vermont, Alabama, Iowa.
Kentucky and interior New York, but
judgments against them aggregate $72. O0O
1t is rumored that General Gibbon will be
appointed to succeed General Jacob Sharp as
commandant of the National Soldiers Home
at Milwaukee. General Gibbon was recently
in the city and visited the home.
Congressman Guenther will ask for an
appropriation to improve the harbor at
Fond du Lac
John Lynch, Fond du Lac brakeman,
was killed while coupling cars at Brillion,
Calumet County, the other night
Mrs. Mary Richards, aged thirty five years,
and living at Tilden, thirty miles north of
Eau Claire. shot herself through the heart
recently while laboring under a fit of in
sanity. The weapon was 32-caliber re-
volver, and caused death Instantly. Tie
unfortunate woman leaves a husband and
four children She made an unsuccessful
effort not long ago in an attempt to suicide
by drowning.
John E Burton has filed a mortgage for
$3.50, 900 in Ashland, Ashland County, in
favor of the Genital Trust Company of
New York, on mining, real-estate and other
property The money, it is said, will be
used to help the Burton mines out of tinan-
csal difficulties.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02

THERE are 1926, 900 school teachers in
the United States, and they are
mighty force, armed with the rod in
one hand and the spelling-book IN the
other
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Five Persons Killed--A Dance Hall Blown
Down in Mineoa q, Tex.

M1NEoLA, Tex, Nov. 2S.-A heavy wind
storm visited this town late Saturday night,
blowing down hall in which dance
held by colored people was in prog
ress Five persons were killed and
about twenty injured. About seventy
persons were in the hall when it
collapsed Six of the injured have arms
or legs broken. The killed are Thomas
Hardman, Jack Wilson, Reuben Garrett,
Fannie Benson and Rose Benson. The
store-rooms below the hall were occupied
by R. P. Glenn & Co, L. A. benson and N
S. Sodekson, whose aggregate loss on
groceries and general merchandise exceeds
R10 200